The Reading List

Fiction
A Walk on the Wild Side (1956) / Nelson Algren
The Man with the Golden Arm (1949) / Nelson Algren
The Fahrenheit Twins (2005) / Michel Faber
Ancestor Stones (2006) / Aminatta Forna

Nonfiction
Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers (2006) / Kwame Anthony Appiah
Ghost Train Through the Andes: On My Grandfather’s Trail in Chile and Bolivia (2006) / Michael Jacobs
Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2006) / Amartya Sen
The Argumentative Indian: Writings on Indian Culture, History and Identity (2005) / Amartya Sen